Sign Up | Collaborate with us Welcome back! OpenAI had a busy Thursday. Codex can now tap apps on your Mac from your phone, even after the screen locks. Google went the other way and tripled the Gemini limits inside Antigravity, this time for good.
ClickUp cut 22% of its staff while calling itself the strongest it has ever been, then dangled million-dollar pay for whoever stays. And Microsoft is pulling Claude Code from its own engineers, mostly because the math stopped working. In today's Generative AI Newsletter: Codex: What can OpenAI's coding agent do now that it could not yesterday? Gemini limits: Why did Google just triple what you can run inside Antigravity?
ClickUp cuts: Who gets a million-dollar salary right after a 22% layoff? Microsoft + Claude: Why is Microsoft taking Claude Code away from its own engineers? Codex can now run your Mac while it's locked OpenAI shipped a stack of Codex updates on Thursday, and the headline one is life changing for Codex users. It can now reach the apps on your Mac straight from your phone, even when the Mac is locked and the screen is off.
The details: Locked use: Codex briefly unlocks your Mac to run the task, covers every screen while it works and relocks the second it detects your keyboard or mouse. Goal mode: You hand Codex a goal (not step-by-step instructions) and it works toward it for hours, sometimes days, across the app, IDE and command line.
Codex wants to do the work while you are away. Letting an agent wake a locked laptop and click around inside your apps is the kind of power that makes IT teams sweat. But the updates seem worth it. The goal mode and appshots in particular will reshape how you use it.
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Invest today Google tripled Gemini's Antigravity limits for good Google just tripled the rate limits for Gemini on every paid Antigravity tier, and it reset everyone's weekly quota on top of that. Plenty of people were hitting the ceiling fast after the release of Gemini 3.5 Flash. The Gemini dev team turned it around in a day. More headroom matters because agentic coding eats tokens fast.
A single Antigravity task can fire off dozens of model calls behind one prompt, so tripling the limit is the difference between finishing a build and stalling halfway through it. Google is buying goodwill from developers while Gemini 3.5 Flash is new and the competition is watching. ClickUp cut 22% of its team, then promised million-dollar pay ClickUp laid off 22% of its staff this week, and CEO Zeb Evans says the business has never been stronger. His pitch is that AI changed what a top company looks like, so he is rebuilding ClickUp into what he calls a 100x org , a smaller group of people steering armies of agents.
They already run about three for every employee. Evans says the savings go back to the people who stay, with new salary bands reaching $1 million a year in cash for anyone who creates 100x impact by building or running AI systems. (So you make extra money for building a system that replaces you?) Anyways… Strip away the framing and this is a layoff dressed up as a promotion for the survivors. The bet is that a few AI-fluent people now out-produce a whole team and Evans is willing to pay up to keep the ones who prove it. Microsoft is pulling Claude Code from its engineers Microsoft is canceling internal Claude Code licenses and moving its developers onto GitHub Copilot CLI, its own coding tool.
The teams behind Windows, Microsoft 365, Outlook, Teams and Surface have until June 30 to switch, and the awkward part is that those engineers preferred Claude Code. So why drop it? Companies pay a flat monthly fee per person, but the real bill runs on tokens, and agentic tools can burn 10x to 100x what a normal chat does. Per-seat pricing falls apart.
Microsoft's fiscal year ends June 30, so the timing trims costs at the changeover. Others feel it too (Uber reportedly torched its 2026 AI budget in four months, and GitHub goes usage-based June 1). Microsoft runs its own data centers at huge scale, so this is a unit-economics call. WDYT about this? Tool of the Day: Extuitive Have you tested what breaks first: your voice AI or your customer's patience?
Extuitive lets you test an ad before you spend a dollar running it. You point it at a product and it writes the copy, builds the images and video, then proposes campaign angles, and it runs the whole thing past a panel of AI shoppers modeled on 150,000 real consumers. You see predicted purchase intent and which version lands before anything goes live. It plugs straight into Shopify, so ecommerce sellers can go from product page to tested ad in one sitting.
Try this yourself: Go to extuitive.com and create an account. Connect your Shopify store, or paste in a single product to start. Let it generate ad copy, images and a few campaign angles for that product. Run the variations past the AI consumer panel and read the predicted purchase intent for each.
Best for Shopify sellers, marketers and founders who want to kill weak ads before paying to run them. Everything else you shouldn't miss Trump reverses course: The White House walked hold on signing yesterday's order, so frontier AI releases will not face a 90-day government review, for now. OpenCode meets Grok: OpenCode now runs on your Grok or X Premium subscription, including the new Grok Build model. Starbucks pulls the plug: Starbucks retired its AI inventory tool across North America after it reportedly miscounted and mislabeled items in stores.
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